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PHYSICIAN WELLNESS

Mar 11, 2019
7 min

What Do Doctors Want?

I've been reading the many Doximity, Medscape and Kevin, M.D. posts that I receive in my email daily. I read about 'burnout' and depressi...

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Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Feb 14, 2019
6 min

Physician: Love Thyself

I am writing a Valentine's Day post. It's not about my husband, who I love dearly. Sorry, Larry. It's about me- and self-love. It's be...

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Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Jan 25, 2019
4 min

Uninsured?

The rate of uninsured patients in our country is up, the highest it has been since the beginning of 2014, when the Affordable Care Act fi...

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Rosalind Kaplan, MD

Jan 7, 2019
4 min

New Years Resolutions for Physicians

2019 is here. I started my year by doing an Urgent Care shift on New Years Day. It was not quite as busy as I expected; most of the shif...

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Rosalind Kaplan, MD

Nov 29, 2018
8 min

A View From the Other Side

A few days ago, I made a call to my neurologist's office. The fourth call about the same issue. I needed my migraine medication and wa...

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What I'm Learning From Working in Urgent Care

Rosalind Kaplan, MD

Oct 29, 2018
3 min

What I'm Learning From Working in Urgent Care

I've only worked four shifts of Urgent Care so far, but four 12-hour shifts means I've seen a lot- a lot of patients, a lot of different ...

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Rosalind Kaplan, MD

Oct 18, 2018
4 min

No Magic Pill for Change

It's suddenly really cold here! It feels like winter, and it seems like flu season is starting. Ugh- how did that happen? Not only tha...

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Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Oct 3, 2018
4 min

Self-Care 101

We all say it. Many of us believe it. 'Doctors make the worst patients.' Is it true? I don't really know. Some of us are probably hyp...

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Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Sep 20, 2018
4 min

A Good Start to Fall

The first day of Fall is almost here. I'm still like a kid when it comes to the seasons. Fall is the beginning- the excitement of new b...

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Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Sep 12, 2018
3 min

Starting to See Some Light

I had an exciting day yesterday. Not all happy, but exciting. I was invited to screenings of the documentary film 'Do No Harm' this wee...

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Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Sep 2, 2018
6 min

"Don't Let This Happen to Anyone Else"

Today's post is what those last few posts were building up to- the big, bad topic we have to get past. The one we have to talk about bef...

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Rosalind Kaplan, MD

Aug 15, 2018
6 min

What Are We So Afraid Of?

Doctors are some of the most highly educated and skilled professionals in society. We spend at least seven years post college training t...

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Medicine as Sport?: Bullying in the Medical Profession

Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Aug 7, 2018
4 min

Medicine as Sport?: Bullying in the Medical Profession

No, it wasn't quite like that. Nobody punched me in the face. Maybe I would have preferred being punched in the face, though. And yes,...

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Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Jul 31, 2018
5 min

A Piece of the Puzzle: Secondary Trauma

I’ve been out of medicine a little over a month now. The first couple of weeks were crazy- I ran right to Boston to my MFA residency, and...

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Rosalind Kaplan, MD

Jul 23, 2018
6 min

I Left Medicine So I Could be Healthy

It's the beginning of July, the beginning of a new academic medicine year, that strange entity that goes from July 1 to June 30 instead o...

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Rosalind Kaplan, M.D.

Jul 17, 2018
5 min

Heal Yourself: Take Some Time Off!

Summer. Time for vacation, right? This year, when I go on vacation, I will have the luxury of actually being on vacation. I have deadl...

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Rosalind Kaplan, MD

Jul 5, 2018
3 min

No More Primary Care

As I was saying in my last post, I left Primary Care Medicine for a host of reasons. That post will be back up soon. You can read it in...

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